The process operates at 'zero' maintenance
cost as there is no acid, no hot liquid tanks
for rod pre-coating, no hot air blowers to
dry wet rod, and it operates at virtually
zero energy consumption.

An added benefit is the automatic control
of lubrication parameters, including
lubricant pressure, temperature and
viscosity, enabling the use of standard high
melting lubricants (+220°C/428°F) which
are converted from solid into liquefied
state and deposited on bare rod in a few
microseconds, generating exceptional
thermal stability at the highest drawing
speed, eliminating phosphate, borax and
their wet substitutes.

In operation, all these parameters
'communicate' together in a sensitive
and automatic multi-way interaction
to form a hard and strongly adherent
full-film anti-wear lubricant coat,
weight-adjustable, enabling frictionless
drawing by physical separation
of wire-die contact in all drafts,
eliminating friction heat.

Typical applications of the DCCD
process are: output of 2.2 tonne/
hour with 5.5mm 0.83/0.88%C rod,
in a 'frictionless' drawing application
with die life of 200 tonnes/die in the
first draft and a die wear of 0.1 to 0.3
micron/tonne of wire drawn in the last
draft.